• We believe as Christians that God is creator and redeemer.

• Jesus is the Christ lived, died, buried, resurrected and ascended.

• The Holy Spirit is our helper who dwells within us the Holy Bible is God's word and our guide.

• Prayer is communication with God.

• Grace is the unearned and unmerited favor of God.

• Justification puts us into the right relationship with God by faith in Jesus Christ sanctification sets us apart for God's use.

There is one God, uncreated and unchangeable, who has always existed and will always exist. His being is Spirit and His nature love, goodness, truth, and beauty. He is all-powerful and all wise and everywhere present. God by His very nature is self-limited so that He cannot do anything that is evil, absurd, or irrational.

Within the non-numerical unity of the God head there are three eternal distinctions, which we name Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and together call the trinity. These distinctions correspond to three eternal activities of God, those of creation, redemption and sanctification. They are called Persons, but the word has s special technical meaning, not that generally given to it in ordinary conversation, and it in no way implies that there are three distinctive personalities within the Godhead.

The CME church's moral law is summed up in the great saying of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in which He combined two verses from the Jewish Law--Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18 "thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." (St. Matthew 22:37-40) All Christian moral and religious teaching is but a commentary on these two fundamental principles that man is called upon to love God and love his fellow men. One is called upon to love God first of all and to place Him first, but it is impossible t love God without loving one's fellow men at the same time.

This means that the standard of moral judgment of the thoughts, words, and deeds of men is whether or not they are loving. No thought, word, or action which cannot fulfill that qualification is Christian. Our Savior left no detail enactments for the government of human life, but simply these fundamental principles which He gave men to apply for their particular problems they confront daily. He imparted no special set of laws toward living life in general. The Christian virtues are in a degree found in such sayings as that of St. Paul (Galatians 5:22-23) "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance" or of especially in the Sermon on the Mount. The Beatitudes, (St. Matthew 5:3-10) contain an excellent catalogue of Christian virtues, and testify to the spiritual joy which is the characteristics of those who lead a Christian life

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; the third day he rose from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of god the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit; the Holy catholic church (Universal); the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. Amen.

God the Father started the process by which the entire universe, including man is still being created. The CME Church is not committed to any theory of the exact way in which God creates, but only to the fact that He, and He alone, is Creator. Not only does God create, but He also sustains, provides for, watches over, and cares for that which He has created. God rules His creation, and through discipline trains His children.

Man is born with a free will of his own into an imperfect world with natural instincts which, when not controlled and sanctified, leads to sin. Sin is the conscious choosing of the worse of two alternatives, disobedience to the will of God, the failure to rise to the possibilities within one. Sin erects a barrier between men and God and hinders the free and full communication with Him in prayer. Through the atonement made on the cross by Christ it is possible for man to obtain the forgiveness of his sins when he repents and obtains, besides, the power to conquer sin and live a life in communion with God, which is the real meaning of salvation. Salvation is being saved not only from sin but also being saved into righteousness. God in his infinite mercy treats those who pledge themselves to him in Baptist and seriously attempt to live according to His will as saved. Although they have not as yet attained that stat of full surrender and communion with Him. This is what is called in theological language justification by faith. Salvation is a present fact, and one, which can always be gained or lost as long as man has free will.

The church technically consists of all who have been baptized with water in the name of the Trinity. It is the Body of Christ made up of members with varying gifts, all acknowledging Jesus Christ as divine Lord of their lives. Not only in its members individually, but also in the church corporately, dwells the Holy Spirit, giving to the church its life, and leading it and its members into all truth. The church has been traditionally divided into the church Militant the earthly, fighting the battle against sin, the church Expectant in the intermediate state, and the church Triumphant in Heaven. In more modern terms, the church is one in the Lord, and her members have their fellowship with one another, both in this life and the life to come, though their fellowship with Jesus Christ, their possession of one Spirit, and their common brotherhood as children of one Father of all.

The church exists to continue the work that Christ began on earth, to hold up before men the revelation of God made through Jesus Christ, and to help men to attain unto the quality of life that God intended for them.

The concern of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is for the spiritual well fare of all humankind and springs from the act of God in Jesus Christ as revealed in the Gospel and from the life and witness of John Wesley and other fathers of Methodism who ministered to the spiritual, physical, intellectual, and social needs of the people to whom they preached the gospel of personal redemption.

The mission and activity of the Butler Street CME Church is to express itself in the world in the light of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Jesus taught us both by word and example to be concerned for the welfare and the well being of others, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to be concerned for justice.

Although good works which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment, yet they are pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and spring out of a true and lively faith. Therefore we seek to do good works in the world.

With love, diligence, patience and worship our mission is to prepare the members and participants for their divinely ordained redemptive witness in every place and circumstance.